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Copper Contributor

Jan 26, 2018

RDC Access to one PC in domain

I work remotely a fair bit and would like to just connect via RDC to my office PC. If I am part of the Domain Admins group, this works fine. But I am setting up a less privileged account to access ...

Active Directory

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Richard_Hooper

MVP

Jan 27, 2018

Hello Albert.

if it is just the one pc, it might be easier for you to just add the non-privileged account to the local remote desktop users on your office pc rather than using GPO which could affect all computers the GPO is linked to.

Also, I was wondering are you only doing this via VPN, or have you opened ports straight to this computer on the firewall. I am just thinking of security is all.

Hope this helps and if you need any further information happy to help in any way I can.

Thanks

Richard

Albert Gostick

Copper Contributor

Jan 30, 2018

Hi Richard,

Right now, it is just the one PC so I will probably just add it manually, locally to that PC; but I need to discuss with the other 2 admins whether we should not be "formalizing" this and doing it via a GPO for consistency. And yes, I access first via a VPN and then jump to the PC I need.

Thanks,

Albert

Richard_Hooper
MVP
Jan 30, 2018
Sounds good! I would formalise and document it if you are going to start doing this more.